The United States Post Office Cooper Station, located at 93 Fourth Avenue, on the corner of East 11th Street in Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1937, and was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster in the Art Moderne style for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. It serves the 10003 ZIP code, which covers the neighborhood of the East Village. Its sub-station is located on East 3rd Street near Avenue C.
United States Post Office Cooper Station | |
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| Location | 93 4th Avenue Manhattan, New York City |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′55″N 73°59′24″W / 40.73194°N 73.99000°W |
| Built | 1937[1] |
| Architect | William Dewey Foster |
| Architectural style | Art Moderne[1] |
| MPS | US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88002360 |
| NYSRHP No. | 06101.001781 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1989[2] |
| Designated NYSRHP | May 11, 1989 |
The post office is named in honor of Peter Cooper, the mid-19th century industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearby The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]
In popular culture
editThe fictional character Newman from the television sitcom Seinfeld supposedly worked here. A photo of the building was frequently used as an establishing shot for scenes involving him.
References
edit- ^ a b White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
External links
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Media related to United States Post Office (Cooper Station) at Wikimedia Commons- Map and Business Hours – USPS website
- Lombardi, Kristin (7 March 2006). "Not Subject to Review". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
Hudson [Companies, the Brooklyn developer, ] acquired St. Ann's Church from the New York archdiocese in December 2004. The next month, the company bought additional air rights for the Peter Cooper Station Post Office, on East 11th Street, from the United States Postal Service. The transfer of those air rights allows Hudson to erect a far larger building—with another 61,000 square feet, by neighbors' calculation an extra 62 percent of room—than the developer otherwise could.
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